KDE4 is taking over GNOME settings...
by Dawid Zamirski
Hello all,
I have recently gave a try KDE4 installing it alongside GNOME and while
it ran fine, and I actually kind of liked it :-), after logging back to
GNOME I have noticed that:
* Dolphin took over "open folder" action, eg. opening anything in Places
menu Dolphin opens up instead of Nautilus. I've found a gconf key
setting via google that fixes this but still..
* In Firefox, "Open With" of the download window was taken over by KDE
apps e.g instead of Transmission to open .torrent files the KTorrent is
set as default and I can't even change it back.
* In Firefox, also in the download window, when I right-click on the
downloaded file and choose Open or Open Containing Folder an alert popup
shows up saying it cannot open folder location.
There were several more issues like that when KDE apps took GNOME's
defaults when running GNOME but I can't remember them now. After I have
removed KDE4 all went back to normal.
So before I start to BZ those, is this already a known issue and is
there a chance of it being fixed so that when I run KDE4, I have
kde-specific default and when I run GNOME I have my GNOME defaults still
active.. I'd really like to play with KDE4 to get more comfortable with
it but after it took over my GNOME settings I felt a little bit
frustrated and removed it as it reminded me the Windows days when you
install one application and it takes over all possible file associations
it can :-/ (BTW when trying to remove the kde-desktop meta package, it
wanted to remove almost all of my system including pulseaudio, gdm etc
so I had to remove kde related packeges one by one).
Regards,
Dawid
14 years, 6 months
Network Manager
by Lawrence E Graves
My network manager is not working at all. I am not experienced enough
to understand what is going on so please advise me someone as to what I
should do. I am running Fedora 12 Beta on a Dell Inspiron E1705
laptop.
--
Lawrence E Graves <lgraves(a)risingstarmbc.com>
14 years, 6 months
Re: Beta on Beta: VMware Workstation 7 RC on F12B?
by Allen Kistler
David wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> Fedora Bugzilla will not solve anything. The bug will probably just be
> closed since it can not be fixed by Fedora.
>
> The SELinux list *might* at least get you enough instructions to write
> an 'exception' rule. There is a different name for this but I can recall
> it at the moment.
>
> Vmware has their own Bugzilla. I just looked for it. I would think that
> there would be the place to report this. I would think that this is a
> bug that they would fix. Or at least offer a 'do this' fix for the user
> to apply.
There is a vmware policy in Fedora (and RHEL). Depending on the nature
of the AVCs, filing a bug for SELinux in RH BZ might get the policy updated.
The case would be helped a lot if Workstation 7 actually runs on Fedora
with SELinux in permissive mode. If it doesn't, then there's no point
in updating the policy. If VMware needs ridiculous permissions, that's
what will get it closed WONTFIX, but there has to be a BZ with the AVCs,
first.
I wouldn't be surprised if RH (and by extension, Fedora) dropped support
for VMware Workstation soon. But in the meantime ....
14 years, 6 months
rawhide report: 20091026 changes
by Fedora compose checker
Compose started at Mon Oct 26 06:15:07 UTC 2009
Broken deps for ppc64
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python-mwlib-0.11.2-3.20090522hg2956.fc12.ppc64 requires LabPlot
Summary:
Added Packages: 0
Removed Packages: 0
Modified Packages: 0
14 years, 6 months
New BugZapper Introduction
by Andrew Vliet
Hello all,
Pending my membership approval of course, I'm sending this e-mail as per
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Joining#How_to_Sign_Up
Name:
Andrew Vliet
IRC Nick:
arvliet
Skype:
arvliet
MSN:
andrew_vliet (at) hotmail (dot) com
XMPP:
arvliet (at) gmail (dot) com
Experience (Fedora):
I've been using Fedora since the release of Fedora 10 as an OS for
laptop, server, desktop, and remotely serviceable client machines in
both English and Português. I've been seeing great potential in it,
plan to keep using it, and would like to show my gratitude by helping
push the project forward.
Beyond Fedora, I was a software tester a few years ago for a proprietary
cross platform unified authentication suite. I've been, an in-house
Windows programmer, Network Administrator for big oil, and System
Administrator for several different sectors. During the past 10 years,
before, during, and after the aforementioned jobs, I have been doing
System admin and contracting for small / medium businesses. The current
focus is on complete, managed office solutions, cross platform
integrations, and office automation / computerized solutions.
Granted, I don't play a lot of games, but that said - five years ago, I
went Windows-less on my personal network, and haven't looked back. My
business equipment is mostly Linux and FOSS save for the no-other-option
support, devel, and troubleshooting units.
I've been a FOSS supporter and promoter from the good ol' days of
Mandrake Linux ¿3.2? when I put it on my Toshiba 430 CDS. Took me
nearly a week to download on 28.8 dial-up and another 3 days to install,
but /damn/ it was wicked cool. More recently I have been implementing
solutions such as OpenOffice.org, Clam, IPS, Checkpoint, SAMBA, FTP,
Apache, OpenVPN, Citrix, Windows Server 2003, BIND, FreeSwitch,
softphones, off site data backup, etc. Basically anything that will fit
the business requirements, so - all sorts of good stuff.
Personal:
I live in the great frozen north (Canada). Have a thing for ethics and
the teachings of Tenzin Gyatso in particular. Ride motorbike(s) -
anything with 2 wheels and a motor is fair game. Grew up climbing
mountains untethered, shooting big guns, fixing old cars, and horse
packing into the back country for fun. Prefer spicy, foreign, and
vegetarian food. Married a beautiful Brazilian woman from the Amazon
jungle. Yes I've been there - the frogs are oh-so-pretty, but please
don't touch them. Have a soft spot for small(ish) children and animals.
Long to get my pilot's licence with IFR and twin turbine ratings so I
can buy that Citation I've been eyeing. Will accept cash in lieu of
praise and glory. Have an "odd" sense of humour and even my closest
friends think I'm weird - don't take me too seriously.
Hope to start workin', contributin', and spendin' lots of late nights
drinking way too much coffee with y'all soon.
Cheers,
Andrew
---
My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes
after. His words ring sweet as a chime of gold, And his eyes are lit
with laughter. He is jubilant as a flag unfurled -- Oh, a girl, she'd
not forget him. My own dear love, he is all my world -- And I wish I'd
never met him. -- Dorothy Parker, part 1
14 years, 6 months
NetworkManager at odd with system connections
by Masood
Hi
I have a problem with NetworkManager on a fully updated rawhide. I have the
following network configurations:
# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0
DEVICE=br0
TYPE=Bridge
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0
DEVICE=eth0
TYPE=Ethernet
BRIDGE=br0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
HWADDR=00:1B:FC:60:8D:45
ONBOOT=yes
With NetworkManager service disabled, network is functional but when I
enable NetworkManager, it assigns an IP for eth0 and modifies route table
which break the network:
# ifconfig
br0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:FC:60:8D:45
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21b:fcff:fe60:8d45/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:925 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:749 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:334804 (326.9 KiB) TX bytes:254028 (248.0 KiB)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:FC:60:8D:45
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21b:fcff:fe60:8d45/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:61144 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:40629 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:69658068 (66.4 MiB) TX bytes:5827489 (5.5 MiB)
Interrupt:17
...
route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 br0
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 1 0 0 eth0
192.168.122.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
virbr0
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 1019 0 0 br0
default 192.168.1.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
Is this supposed to happen with NM or my configurations are incorrect?
Regards,
Masood
14 years, 6 months
Recap: blocker bug review meeting 2009-10-23
by Adam Williamson
We held the first official blocker bug review meeting for Fedora 12
final release on Friday, 2009-10-23. Many thanks to James Laska, Jesse
Keating, Ray Strode, Matej Cepl, Denise Dumas, Justin Forbes, Bill
Nottingham, Edward Kirk, and Matthias Clasen for their contributions.
We ran through all 51 bugs on the blocker list at the time of the
meeting, accepting or dropping them as blockers and working to ensure
all remaining blockers are in the process of being fixed.
You can see a summary of the entire meeting, with the final decision on
each bug, at:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2009-10-23/fedora-bugz...
a full log of the meeting (warning: extremely long) is available at:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2009-10-23/fedora-bugz...
The next blocker review meeting will be next Friday, 2009-10-30, at
15:00 UTC in #fedora-bugzappers. Thanks again to all who contributed.
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net
14 years, 6 months
Rawhide Install Conflict
by Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX
Saturday's and today's rawhide installs have a conflict with the
X development system. Unless the X development system is deselected,
install fails with a header file conflict. The "details" information
does not indicate which packages are causing the conflict; this must
be divined by trial and error by deselecting packages until the conflict
goes away.
This affects both 32 and 64 bit flavors.
--
Chuck Forsberg caf(a)omen.com www.omen.com 503-614-0430
Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications
Omen Technology Inc "The High Reliability Software"
10255 NW Old Cornelius Pass Portland OR 97231 FAX 629-0665
14 years, 6 months
Common_F12_bugs and acroread
by Michal Jaegermann
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F12_bugs#adobe-reader-fail
says "Current releases of Adobe Reader do not run by default on
Fedora 12". It looks to me that this information is already
obsolete. At least AdobeReader_enu-9.2-1.i486 appears to be running
"out-of-the-box". I tried that on x86_64 installation. This indeed
was not the case for AdobeReader_enu-9.1.3-1.i486 where
'GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1' was required.
Michal
14 years, 6 months